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. the middle east crisis continues this morning. muslims angered by an anti-islamic film stage more protesters against the united states. >> u.s. and libyan officials give an account of last week that left four americans dead. >> it began spontaneously. >> this left us with no doubt that this was pre-planned, pre-determined. >> still on strike, chicago teachers will walk the picket line again today after the city extends a tentative contract offer. >> pair of nfl coaches exchange some unpleasantries after sunday's game. this is the "cbs morning news"
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for monday, september 17, 2012. good morning, everybody. good to be with you. i'm terrell brown. anothemorning of anti-american protests in the middle east. hundreds of demonstrators turned tires and shouted death to america on a road near u.s. air base in kabul, afghanistan. hezbollah is calling for anti-protests. and roughly 50 are arrested in the benghazi attack. >> reporter: good morning, terrell. the u.s. is sending more military force certain hot spots after this new violence in kabul and hezbollah calling for more protests, indicating the the evenings could escalate across the arab world. hundreds of protesters are clashing with police and marching towards a u.s. military
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base in kabul, afghanistan. it's the latest in a wave of violence connected with an american made anti-islam film. protests in pakistan turned deadly sunday when demonstrators clashed with police outside the u.s. consulate in karachi. one protester was killed, u.s. officials say all americans inside the mission are safe. in tripoli, lebanon this weekend protesters went after symbols of america including a kfc and hardee's rest rent. the helped of hezbollah called on muslims to join the protest saying they should judge and punish the people responsible for this mock movie so that they become an example toni who thinks about disrespecting our prophet and our koran. and in sudan and tunisia the u.s. is evacuating non-essential personnel from there. u.s. investigators are trying to
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determine whether the killings of four americans in libya including ambassador chris stevens were premed dated or part of mass protest against the film. susan rice the u.s. ambassador the u.n. said the attack appears to be spontaneous demonstration that extremists took over. >> there were extremist elements that joined and escalated the violence, whether they are al qaeda, libyan extremists. >> reporter: libya's president disagrees. he said it was a well-planned attack. >> the way it moved this leaves us with no doubt this was pre-planned, ple determined. >> reporter: rice said it was two early to aif security should have been tighter. al qaeda is also calling for more attacks on u.s. embassies. >> susan, thank you.
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meanwhile america's top military officer general martin dempsey said attacks inside afghanistan are a very serious threat to the war effort and we want whitewash this. on sunday four american troops were killed at a checkpoint by afghan police. this year more than 50 nato service members mostly americans have been killed by afghan security officers. this morning in tokyo, leon panetta said he was concerned about the attack but the risks are part of war. >> we'll not lose sight of the fundamental mission here, which is to continue to proceed to assure a peaceful transition to afghan security and governance. >> reporter: on friday two u.s. marines were killed during an attack on a british air base in southern afghanistan. nato has apologized for an air strike that killed eight women and girls.
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they were girg firewoathering f a remote area. pope benedict left libya yesterday calling for peace and urging an end to the violence. during a campaign visit to ohio, president obama is expected to announce a new trade against china. the u.s. says u.s. manufacturers are at a disadvantage. between 2001 and 2010 jobs in the u.s. auto parts sector dropped by about half while imports of auto parts from china have increased seven times. ohio is a critical swing state where many blame china for lost manufacturing jobs. the president will campaign in two cities there today, mitt romney campaigns in california where karen brown reports he'll make an appeal to hispanic
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voters. >> reporter: carlos has seen his customers buying habits change. >> they come in twice a week for grocery, now once a week. >> reporter: his family immigrated from mexico in 1961. and they opened a deli which now is a chain of three supermarkets. it's an american recession story. >> we've got back on hiring. we try to make people do more. the word is uncertainty. >> what's on my mind is exactly the same thing that's on everybody else's mind. creating jobs and the economy. >> reporter: nina started a dallas-based information technology company in her living room. she now employs 4,000 people and chairs the u.s.-hispanic chamber of commerce which will hear mitt romney speak. >> it's government's responsibility to create an environment in which small businesses can succeed. what i am most frustrated with,
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honestly as a business owner, is this incredible toxic political environment. [ speak being foreign language ] >> reporter: president obama leads romney by 2-1 with hispanic voters and aggressively trying to register more. romney is trying to cut into that margin by targeting 3 million hispanic owned businesses. >> these are people that depend on entrepreneurship to feed their families, put food on their table. small businesses create 60% of the vast majority of jobs in this country and hispanic owned businesses are growing at 23%. >> reporter: carlos plans to be among thousands of hispanic business leaders from around the country who will hear romney. >> primarily he's saying things i want to here. >> reporter: they both want to hear from either candidate is less regulation, lower taxes and more assets to capital. karen brown, cbs news, los
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angeles. >> chicago mayor rahm emanuel is seeking a court order to force chicago teachers back to work as the strike enters week two. the mayor sought a court order after teachers said they want more time to evaluate a contract offer. they said they didn't have enough time to review the offer. >> our people know how to read, do math and they understand these things. they need the opportunity to have the opportunity to do that and i would like to give it to them. >> we are extremely disappointed after ten months of discussion and reaching a fair compromise the teachers union decided to continue their strike and keep our children out of the classroom. >> the main issues remain teacher evaluations and job security. the union will meet again tomorrow. coming up on a monday morning, royally peeved. the photographer who took those pless photos of the duchess of cambridge faces a legal battle
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. a criminal complaint is expected to be filed in paris today against the photographer who took pictures of prince william's wife kate sun bathing topless. prince william and kate were visiting. the royal family plans to file a criminal complaint over breach of privacy. an italian magazine also plans to publish those photos. cbs money watch now has gas prices peak and zombies take over the box office. >> good morning. overseas markets were mostly flat this morning, hong kong hang seng add ad fraction, shanghai's composite index added a 2%. several economic reports due out this week could chart wall street's course, among them trade deficit, housing starts and weekly jobless claims. & beyond reports.ed e-bed, bath
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on friday the dow jones industrial reached its highest close since december of 2007 ending the week up 286 points while the nasdaq finished 47 points higher. gasoline prices may be coming down. the price of regular is $3.46 prices are expected to decline now that refineries have switched from the higher priced summer blend to a less costly wintry mix. resident evil was top at the weekend box of. the zombie horror sequel took in more than $21 million in ticket sales. "finding nemo" finished second with $17.5 million. "the possession" fell to third place with just $5.5 million.
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telemarketing companies don't under or refuse to understand what do-not-call means. the federal trade commission says complaints about unwanted telephone solicitation are up a whopping 225% since 2010. the biggest problems are with recordings, the robo calls that use caller i.d. to hide the numbers. >> how are you doing? i'm fine how are you doing? who is this. >> then they hang up on you. >> rude. i ow. doesn't look like it's going away. up next your monday morning weather and in sports what set off this testy exchange between the coaches. giants and buccaneers after
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parts of the mid-atlantic is wet. most of the west will be dry. in sports this morning a big performance from the 49ers big tight end vernon davis. first quarter, alex smith goes on top and finds davis in the end zone. san francisco gets the early lead. then smith and davis hook up again. this time davis took some moves before getting to the end zone. san francisco will win this one 21-17. game of the day, giants and bucs. coming back from a two touchdown deficit. tied the game up on 27. the giants jump ahead by a touchdown but tampa bay responds with a bomb. josh freeman to mike williams, 41 yards to tie it up. new york not done yet. andre brown put the giants ahead for good. a short touchdown run with less than a minute to play. some controversy. eli manning gets run over. and as the team raves for a
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post-game hand shake, the two coaches exchanged some heated words. 41-34 will be the final in this one. the nfl referees are stilling locked out but the league had to replace one of its replacement refs. the league pulled reed. to baseball in the wild card race. st. louis and los angeles came into sunday tied for the last pro season spot. knocked an rbi double to right. st. louis wins 5-2 and is one game on the dodgers. and in al matt weeders goes, baltimore wins it, one game behind the yankees in the east and have a 2 1/2 game lead to the al second wild card spot. when we come back escalating
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here's a look at the weather in some cities around the country. afternoon rain in washington, 78 degrees. storms in atlanta, 78 dress. part lie sunny skies in denver, 66 and 80 degrees and sunny in seattle. anti-japanese demonstrations some violent. they followed a weekend of large scale protests over japan's claim over islands in the east china sea that china also claims. >> reporter: beijing finally clamped down on anti-japanese protests around the japanese embassy installing heavy security but beyond the well guarded chinese capital tens of
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thousands of protesters in 80 cities across china joined what appeared well organized rallies. many carried posters of former communist leader mao tse tsung. anything associated with japan was under siege. department stores were emptied of merchandise. it was the worst eruption of anti-japanese rage since the two countries normalized diplomatic relations 40 years ago. the japanese should return our territory said this man. the japanese violated again, we should declare war. sparking the anger was japan's move earlier this week to nationalize a group of tiny islands in the east china sea known as the senkaku islands. days later beijing upped the ante in an unusual show of fours beijing sent a large group of patrol ships to sail through the disputed territory.
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the islands are uninhabited but situated near fisheries and rich mineral reserves. japan's prime minister said they would not back down. anti-japanese unrest could be refueled next week as china marks the anniversary of a japanese invasion 81 years ago. new research out today finds kids are eating too much salt and could be leading to health problems. the centers for disease control says 6200 children age 8 to 18, found 15% had high blood pressure or slightly elevated blood pressure on average kids ate 3300 milligrams of assault or so ddium daily. that's more than recommended. coming up the big secret
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. good morgue. welcome to 9news now. today is monday, september 17. i'm andrea roane. i'm jessica doyle in for mike hydeck.
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it is monday. we will get through it. olga is here with weather first. we're off to a good start. you probably have noticed a little bit of mugginess. humidity is high but we have pretty good conditions. satellite and radar has been quiet. i amtraking a cold front coming our way tomorrow and into wednesday. we're looking good right now in d.c. i'm expecting plenty of sunshine through morning, even midday. i think it's going to be pretty nice as our temperatures squeak out of the 60s, into the 70s by lunch time. it should be a pretty good afternoon. we'll increase our winds. however, breezy later on. 10 to 15 mile per hour winds. watch for increasing cloud cover late in the day. i say 3:00 to 4:00 we become mostly cloudy but before that our temperatures should make it into the upper 80s. upper 70s to near 80 degrees. so definitely going to be a warm one for today.
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it does look like we'll top out around 79 degrees at reagan national airport. the next three days could seem a little stormy us for, especially tuesday into wednesday. good morning. early monday morning. nothing really to worry about. there is construction on the inner loop near route 50. northbound 95, no issues at all. nice and light and quiet heading to the 14th street bridge. let's go back over to the maps, this time we'll head over to 270, southbound side i-70, 270, germantown, rockville in issues to report. a last look at great seneca highway at route 24 coming in from the north looks great. we somewhere some exciting
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-- we have some exciting news. a new giant panda. >> mei xiang delivered a new cub around 10:46. zoo staff reporting hearing the cub. they've not been able to see the cub so far. we do have a live crew on the scene and we'll bring you live reports very soon. the other big story everyone will be talking about today is the redskins lost in st. louis. >> a heartbreaker. all came down to one player losing his cool and killing the redskins last-minute offensive drive. despite the loss, this was another really fantastic outing for robert griffin iii. he used his legs and amazing arm to keep the skins in the game. in the second quarter he threw a bomb wide open, leonard. a 68-year-old touchdown. the skins up 21-6. he threw 310 yards and three touchdowns.
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>> with seconds left in the game, give finish was lead a -- griffin was leading a potential game winning drive but then morgan got up and he retaliated against courtland finnegan by throwing the ball at him. dumb move. morgan was hit with an unsportsman like conduct penalty costing the skins 15 valuable yards pushing washington out of field goal range. the skins put out their field goal unit to try for a 62-year- old field goal to tie the game but wasn't even close. the redskins lose a tough one 31-28. more protests over a u.s.- made anti-muslim video are expected today. the leader of hezbollah called for people to join the anti- american demonstrations. >> protests continued through the weekend. one protester died i

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